Thanks, Bob… we were a
Herald-Tribune household in the morning, and in the afternoon it was the
World, Telegram & Sun. The only thing appealing about the
Daily News was that they had
Dick Tracy, and that was a must for me!
Ed said:
Boy, that was just as bad as the stories claiming that the .500 S&W was "the gun of choice" of drug dealers and other evil forces.
O, yeah… news hacks love to create that sort of crap!
I may have told this before, but about a decade ago
New York Magazine (as opposed to
The New Yorker) did a feature of the new "the gun of choice of drug dealers," being the .50 AE Desert Eagle with all sorts of crap quotes from high level pants-wetters (or in the collective coinage of the Lodge 1201 Brethren, "
enuresis ignavus") about the danger to by-standers from this "extraordinarily powerful weapon." I was going to author an outraged latter, but I got laughing so hard at the mental image of some melon-headed corner dealer on a steam August day, shirtless and wearing just a pair of knee-length baggy
pantalones, having to clutch at his waist to keep his outer garment from falling to the sidewalk under the weight of the DE, that I let it go.
Mike said:
Usually I remind them that thanks to GHW Bush/41 and his Executive Order of 1989 that UZI's and other fully auto weapons of foreign manufacture are no longer allowed to be imported….
Wrong year or wrong ordnance.
My Letter to the
Daily News Editor didn't make it today, and I doubt if it will in the future. They did, however, run a short editorial which I cannot find on-line, but the gist of which was that gun-owners are probably gearing up not to make hamburger meat out of Bambi with their high-power, high-capacity assault weapons.
There've been lots of upper echelon changes at the tabloid of late, and this usually portends financial problems. Just last Friday, CEO and co-publisher Fred Drasner left the paper because of "time constraints" (this invariably signals something else!)
Drasner and co-publisher Mort Zuckerman also jointly owned
U.S. News & World Report.